Peter E. Konrad MS, MD, PhD, FAANS

Peter E. Konrad, MD, PhD, completed a medical degree from Indiana University (MD '91) and graduate degrees from Purdue University in Biomedical Engineering and Physiology under Presidential Medal of Technology Awardee – Dr. Leslie Geddes. He became very interested in implantable medical device technology and neural engineering and sought to become a neurosurgical expert in the field of neurological implants. Dr. Konrad finished neurosurgery residency at Vanderbilt in 1997 and stayed on as faculty until 2020.

Dr. Konrad came to the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute in 2020 as the JW Ruby Professor of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience and became Chairman of Neurosurgery in 2022. Dr. Konrad has mentored over 40 graduate students and clinical fellows in all areas of neural engineering and neuroscience research. He brings 25 years of federal and industry-funded research experience as well as over 140 peer-reviewed publications in the field of functional neurosurgery and neural engineering. He has served as advisor to the Congress of Neurological Surgeons on medical devices and was a Board of Directors member of the American Association of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. After 18 years on the Board of the North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS), he served as the president from 2020 to 2022.